PoE Melding of the Flesh, Trickster builds

I've been working on this build for a bit over a week now, spending more time in POB and trade than actually playing several of those days. I've been wanting to post it here for a while, but I wanted to see how far I could push it first. I've nearly reached the end of what I can reasonably change with my current understanding of the game however, and a few people in another post were requesting a pob, so I've decided to post today. First things first, this is a Trickster with a Ralakesh/Replica Badge core with a current charge count of 12/12/5. I've managed to hit 90/90/90/76 res, 100% spell

PoB listed in the original post from PoEsub. But just in case: PoB of current character (imported with configs added): Poe.ninja profile:

a few changes: - Energy blade instead of Ephemeral Edge - Dont need his ES levels because im not doing void feared - 1.7 aps base instead of E.Edge 1.3. Also better base crit for EO uptime - changed gloves for Spectral Throw and not traps - still keeping the empty chest sockets tech, gloves mod options arent super great for this build unfortunately - removed trap nodes on tree. got a little speed and +1 proj. left room for not a 1p voices - Onslaught flask instead of quicksilver for more attack speed. movespeed still decent honestly the build is mostly the s

I am trying to make some kind of trickster build leveraging CI, Aegis, and Iron reflexes to stack a ton of armour, block and max res. My attempt thus far is using lightning trap for damage but I don't know that this is the right direction. I can only crack about 1 mil damage (I think it would really be at least 2 mil thanks to nimis) but I am hoping to get a bit more. I don't know how well POB calculates lightning trap damage so it could be a fair bit more. I would guess so far this build would cost about 50 div or so but it is hard to say. [

Hello everyone So at this time of the league after i finish all my league goals (finishing challenges getting mageblood and having a lot of currency) I do my own builds from scratch (mostly shitty build ideas) So this time i plan to do an energy blade build and have some questions 1- is energy blade with doryani prototype a good way to play this kind of builds 2- is there a good skill to use with energy blade ppl used to do it with helix but don't know if its good after the nerf 3-is playing a flicker stricker energy blade a good ideaty all for you replays i decided at the end to go ener